The Recovery Rebate Credit is based on your 2020 Tax Year return.
The IRS used 2019 returns to send the stimulus payments since no one was ready to file for 2020 at that time (2020 wasn't over yet).
Now people ARE able to file their 2020 Tax Year returns, and the IRS is using that to pay any missing first and second payments.
If you missed any first or second payments, and you can't claim the people on your 2020 return, you no longer are able to get those payments.
If you DID get the payments, you would not have to pay them back, but since you did not get the payments, you can't do anything to get them now.
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